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Show THE GENTLER SEX. Mrs. Langtry is said to be becoming deeply interested in religious matters. The widow of Senator Piiddleberger has taken editorial charge of The Shenandoah Shen-andoah Herald. - Fanny Davenport's board costs her $8 a week. She lives wholly on toast, almost al-most black with carbon, and weak green tea. Marion Crawford, the novelist, has command of eleven languages, besides the ancient Sanscrit, in which he is fairly well versed, n Mrs. John A. Logan says she has taught herself the use of carpenter tools until ahle to build a cupboard or jrat a new shelf in the pantry. A very active woman in the field of social reform in England is Miss Clementina Clem-entina Black, whose pale face and eyeglasses eye-glasses are now known in every labor meeting in London. Mrs. Leland Stanford has given $5,000 for the erection of a monument to Father Junipero Serra, at Monterey, Cal. It will take the place of the cross which marks the spot where the priest landed in 1770 The wife of Senator Davis, of Minnesota, Minne-sota, says: "Since I was 10 years old 1 have never paid one cent to dressmaker or milliner. Every dross, hat and bonnet bon-net I wear is made and trimmed by my own hands." Mrs. Edison, the great electrician's wife, is a woman of 24, whose graceful figure is a trifla above the average height. She has brown hair, hazel eyes, a clear olive complexion, and is an unusually pretty woman, i Elizabeth Comstock, an aged Quaker preacher, living at Union Springs, N. Y., has visited in her lifotime 122,000 persons, per-sons, and nearly twice that many sick persons in and out of poorhouses, on the battlefield, etc, |